Similarity between Bank of England and East India Company

“It was a strategy pursued not only by the bank of England but also the East India Company and the South Sea Company. In the case of the bank, the building view created an external view that, in the words of Clare Walcot, conveyed a polite public image appropriate for a city street, and the self identity of a corporate institution”

–Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England